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Pecora 21/ISRSE 38 Preliminary Program

Technical session dates and times are still being finalized. This Program is subject to change Land Imaging Capabilities and User Needs

Sustainable Land Imaging Landsat 10 User Needs Zhuoting Wu

A Land Imaging Architecture Scorecard to Support Decision-Making Carolyn M Vadnais

What is the Socioeconomic Value of Using Landsat Imagery to Improve Post-wildfire Response Methods? Bethany Mabee

Earth Observing System Capabilities Greg Stensaas

Decision-Support for Land Imaging Mission Engagement Greg Snyder

Interagency Coordination on Satellite Needs Joseph Conran

Trends in Global Land Observation Capacity from Civilian Earth Observation Satellites Jon Christopherson

Assessing the Impact of Land Imaging Emily Sylak-Glassman The Challenges of Integration for Arctic Monitoring The Role of Satellite-based Information to Inform Change in Arctic Ecosystems at the Canadian High Arctic Research Station, Nunavut Donald McLennan

The Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) Airborne Campaign Peter C. Griffith

Integrating Field Scale EO Metrics to Grow Domestic Conservation Practices Within Supply Chain Decision Support Tools Nathan Torbick

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Advances in Land Change Detection and Attribution

Synthesizing Open-access Data for a Continuously Updating Land Use / Land Cover Product Across Large Areas with BULC (Bayesian Updating of Land Cover) Jeffrey A Cardille

Introducing Automatic Satellite Image Processing into Land Cover Mapping by Photo-interpretation of Airborne Data Mario Caetano

Using SOM Neural Network to Improve Land Use and Cover Training Samples from Satellite Image Time Series Karine Reis Ferreira

Optimum Three Layers for Change Detection Using Landsat Images Dr. Essam

Refinement of Historical Cropland Data Layer Based on Deep Learning Approach Chen Zhang Urban Climate Impact Investigations Using Remote Sensing

Heat Vulnerability Index utilizing Landsat derived temperature-NDVI and socio-economic data in Nashville and Portland, USA Sunhui Sim

Assessing Population Sensitivity to Urban Air Pollution using Google Trends and Remote Sensing Datasets Prakhar Misra

City-Level Analysis of Anthropogenic Co2 Emissions Using Oco-2 Observations from 2014 To 2018 Peng Fu

Remote Sensing Contributions to Urban Sustainability John Trinder

Thermal Remote Sensing of Urban Climates in South Africa through the Mono-window Algorithm Adeline Ngie Crop Type Monitoring Initiatives

30+ Years of Cropland Mapping in South America using Landsat Data Viviana Zalles

An Update on the Annual National Cropland Data Layer Program Rick Mueller

Mapping Crop Types with dense time series of L8 and GF Satellite Data Fan Jinlong

The Spatio-temporal Distribution Characteristics of Sugarcane Planting Area and Yield in Guangxi, China Shun Hu

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Twelve Years Experiences in providing LULC and Crop Type Maps for an Interdisciplinary Research Project, the CRC/TRR32 Patterns in Soil-Vegetation-Atmosphere-Systems (2007 - 2018) Georg Bareth Using Remotely Sensed Data to Map Forest Structure and Attributes

Annual Continuous Fields of Woody Vegetation Structure in the Lower Mekong Region from 2000-2017 Landsat Time-Series Peter Potapov

The Challenges of Scaling-up: Monitoring Fractional Woody Vegetation Cover Changes in the Arid Savannahs of Namibia with Lidar Training Data, Machine Learning and SAR Konrad Wessels

Airborne Lidar Sampling Strategies to Enhance Forest Aboveground Biomass Estimation from Landsat Imagery Lindi Quackenbush

Developing a Refined Fine Resolution Forest Site Productivity Map by Linking Biomass Growth Index to Remotely Sensed Variables Parinaz Rahimzadeh-Bajgiran

Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) as a Tool for Investigating Edge Influences in New Hampshire Forests Heather Grybas Space Agencies Outlook

Copernicus—Europe’s eyes on Earth - Status and future Plans Peter Breger

NASA Earth Science Division—Path to the Future Sandra Cauffman

The German Earth Observation Program Peter Schaadt

An Ambitious European EO Space Programme for Current and Future Societal Challenges Ivan Petiteville

Canada’s Future Space-based EO Architecture Eric Laliberte Communicating Science Across the Earth Observation Life Cycle

Tips for Remote Sensing Scientists: How to Talk to Decision Makers Ana Prados

Stories and Services: Crafting Messages and Methods for Communicating Earth Science Kevin Ward

Going Beyond Data to Data-Based Answers to Users’ Questions In The U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit David Herring

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Knowledge Sharing and Communication between Remote Sensing Scientists, Non-experts and Decision Makers: Delivering Trusted Data in a Real-Time Secure Collaborative Environment Dave Jones National Land Cover Database 2016, Offering New Change Insights Across the Conterminous United States

NLCD 2016 Impervious Surface Distribution and Change Patterns George Xian

Release of the 2016 U.S. National Land Cover Database, Providing New Opportunities for Land Cover Science Collin Homer

New NLCD 2016 Shrub and Grass Products, Offering Unprecedented Characterization and Monitoring of U.S. Shrublands Collin Homer

Future Plans for NLCD 2019 Jon Dewitz Understanding Requirements and Improving Results

Progress on the NOAA Satellite Observing System Architecture Study and the Way-Ahead Karen St. Germain

Users, Uses, and Value of Landsat Satellite Imagery: 2018 User Survey Crista Straub

Landsat Advisory Group Assessment of Landsat Data Cost-sharing Models Frank Avila, Bobbi Lenczowski

Using Giovanni to Enhance Citizen Science Observations James Acker

Validating National-scale Remote Sensing Models using Crowdsourced Observations Jill Derwin Seasonal Dynamics in Agricultural and Forestry Systems

Spatiotemporally Explicit Forest Phenoclimatology in Northeastern Minnesota, USA Matthew Garcia

Mapping the Growing Season with Sentinel-2 Data in High Arctic Svalbard Stein Rune Karlsen

Near Real-time Mapping of Crop Emergence using Frequent Satellite Remote Sensing Imagery Feng Gao

Use of VIIRS to Monitor Sub-Annual Surface Type Dynamics Driven by Seasonal and Shorter-term Changes in Snow Cover and Surface Inundation Chengquan Huang

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Copernicus—Europe’s eyes on Earth: Sustainable and Continuous Monitoring of our Environment

Copernicus: How Europe’s Eyes on Earth are Supporting Environment and Climate Change Policy Hans Bruyninckx

The Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service: Bringing Earth Observation into your Screens Vincent-Henri Peuch

Monitoring and Reporting on the Ocean State: The Copernicus Marine Service Pierre Bahurel

The Copernicus Climate Change Service: Monitoring the Earth’s Climate and its Evolution Jean-Noel Thepaut

Where Copernicus Global Land products Can Make a difference! Michael Cherlet The Next Generation of the Landsat Archive

USGS Landsat Archive: Revolutionary Enhancements Christopher Barnes

Landsat Collection 2 Chris Engebretson

Cloud Migration for Landsat Peter Doucette

Landsat Legacy with Landsat 9 Brian Sauer

Landsat Science Products Overview Michelle Bouchard

Landsat Provisional Surface Temperature Product Saeed Arab Global Hyperspectral Imaging Spectral-library of Agricultural-Crops (GHISA) in Support of NASA’s Surface Biology and Geology (SBG) mission

Global Hyperspectral Imaging Spectral-library of Agricultural-Crops (GHISA) in Support of NASA’s Surface Biology and Geology (SBG) mission Prasad S. Thenkabail

Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of Agriculture and Vegetation: 50-Years of Knowledge Advances Prasad S. Thenkabail

Earth Observing-1 Hyperion Hyperspectral Imaging Spectroscopy Data in Advancing Classification Accuracies of the Leading World Agricultural Crops through Cloud Computing on the Google Earth Engine Itiya P. Aneece

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Spaceborne Hyperspectral EO-1 Hyperion Data Pre-processing Methods, Approaches, and Algorithms on the Cloud Itiya P. Aneece Climate Science – Challenges and Opportunities for Fulfilling Global Multilateral Agreements Moderator: Ghassem Asrar, Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), University of Maryland Panelists:

Climate Grand Science Challenges and Opportunities: A Socioeconomic Perspective James Edmond and Leon Clarke, Joint Global Change Research Institute and University of Maryland, College Park

U.S. National Climate Assessment-4: An Overview

David Reidmiller, U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) Office and Virginia Burkett, U.S. Geological Survey

Contributions of Earth Observations to Sustainable Development Goals and Nationally Determined Contributions Prof. Guo Huadong, China

Global Environmental Outlook-6: An Overview Pierre Boileau, United Nations Environment Programme Mapping and Monitoring Surface Change: Landslides and Subsistence

Data Imbalance in Landslide Susceptibility Zonation: Under-sampling for Class-Imbalance Learning Sharad Kumar Gupta

Scale Dependency of Causative Factors used in Preparation of Landslide Susceptibility Zonation Sharad Kumar Gupta

Analysis of Landslide Reactivation using Satellite Data: A Case Study of Kotrupi Landslide, Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India Nitu Singh

Monitoring Subsidence for Arctic Infrastructures by SAR Interferometry Todd Burns

Application of Sentinel 1 in Deformation Monitoring for Suswa Area, Kenya Mercy Mwaniki Advances in the use of Remote Sensing for Watershed Management Potentials of Earth Observation for Water Resources Management: Examples from the Catch-Mekong Project Doris Klein

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Quantifying Effects of Global Change and Land Use Legacy at the Land-Water Interface Across the Great Lakes Basin Michael Battaglia

New Generation of NOAA Polar-orbiting Satellites to Enhance Global Land Applications and Services Felix Kogan

Coastal Land Cover Monitoring: Moving from the Past into the Future Nate Herold

Satellite-based Water Management on the Navajo Nation Amber Jean McCullum Lidar Vegetation Canopy Metrics: Toward Developing Standards

Validating 3DEP lidar data using TLS Jason Stoker

Evaluating the Potential of NAIP-derived Canopy Height Models to Support Operational Forest Inventory Applications in the Southeastern U.S. Todd Schroeder

Lidar Vegetation Canopy Metrics - Towards Developing Standards - A Forest Inventory Perspective James Ellenwood

A Method for Characterizing Stratified Forest using Hyperspectral and Lidar Data Shuai Gao Copernicus Serving Sustainable Development Goals

The Copernicus Climate Change Service: A Contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals Jean Noel Thepaut

The Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service and the monitoring of Sustainable Development Goals Vincent-Henri Peuch

The Copernicus Marine Service in support of SDGs Pierre Bahurel

Copernicus Land Monitoring Service to support implementing the SDGs Chris Steenmans

The Global Land Component of the Copernicus Land Service: key products for SDG monitoring Michael Cherlet Geospatial Fusion: Observations, Features, Decisions

Geospatial Fusion: Innovation and Standards George Percivall

Fusing Remote Sensing and Population Data to Map the Human Planet Robert Chen

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Landscape Dynamics, Geographic Big Data and Scalable Geocomputation: The Oak Ridge ExperienceLandscape Dynamics, Geographic Big Data and Scalable Geocomputation: The Oak Ridge Experience Budhendra Bhaduri

An Interoperable Decision Support System for Flood Disaster Response Assistance Guy Schumann

Preparing Earth Science Satellite Data for Analysis Robert E. Wolfe

Developing a Cloud Analytics Reference Architecture for the Earth Sciences David Meyer Understanding and Improving Landsat Measurements

The Evolution of Landsat Science Products for Earth Science Applications John Dwyer

Landsat-9 OLI-2 Spectral and Radiometric Prelaunch Characterization and a Comparison to Landsat-8 OLI Julie Barsi

Radiometric Performance of Imagers Onboard of Landsat 7 and 8 Satellites Esad Micijevic

Field Validation and Intercomparison of Surface Reflectance Derived from Landsat and Sentinel-2 Satellites at a Continental Scale Medhavy Thankappan

Landsat Thermal Infrared Sensors Imaging Performance Brian Markham Public Health and Safety Topics

Monitoring for Village Burnings with SmallSats: A Case-study in Myanmar Andrew Marx

Spatial Analysis of the 2018 Cholera Outbreak in Harare, Zimbabwe using Humanitarian OPENSTREETMAP Musakwa

Geospatial Evaluation of Former Atlanta Housing Project Sites as Socio-Ecological Nodes Amanda D Aragon

Global Health-care Facilities their Monitoring and Adequacy to Cope with Extreme Environmental Emergencies Andreas N. Skouloudis

Understanding Variations of Atmospheric CH4 Concentration at Zoige Wetland, China Using Multi-temporal AIRS Datasets and BFAST Algorithm Yong Wang

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Land Cover Case Studies for Watershed Management A Comparison of Fused Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8 Oli for Land Cover Mapping—A Case Study of Levhuvhu and Ndzhelele Sub-Catchments in South Africa Zama Eric Mashimbye

Assessment of Watershed Resources for Sustainable Agricultural Development: A Case of Developing an Operational Methodology under Indian Conditions through Geospatial Technologies Balasubramani Karuppusamy

Change Detection in an Ungauged Basin Using Remote Sensing Data: Implications on Human and Natural Systems Jokotola Taiwo

Land Cover Monitoring of Laguna Lake Watershed using MODIS NDVI Data Jommer M. Medina

Creating Remotely Sensed Cover Crop Data in Iowa Amy Logan Surface Water and Ice Monitoring and Assessment

A USGS Standard Product for Wetland Dynamics Monitoring: Lessons Learned from Dynamic Surface Water Extent (DSWE) Application John Jones

Implementation of the Dynamic Surface Water Extent Algorithm in Google Earth Engine for Global Applications Chris Soulard

Remote Sensing of Riparian Zones for Measuring Stream Permanence Ethan Shavers

Towards Monitoring Minnesota’s Under Ice Limnology and in Lake Primary Productivity using the Landsat-Sentinel Earth Observation Constellation Chris Crawford

Monitoring Lake Ice on Lake Hazen using High-density SAR Time Series Justin Murfitt Space Agencies Outlook The Future of International Collaboration with the Continuing Evolution of a Global Integrated Observing System Stephen Volz

The USGS Outlook on Earth Observation Tim Newman

China’s Earth Observation Progress and Its Impact on SDGs Huadong Guo

CNES, French Space Agency Earth Observation Program Selma Cherchali

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How COSMO-SkyMed and PRISMA Can Help Decisions: The Italian Experience Laura Candela Advances in Retrieval of Water Constituents A Cloud-based Approach for Continuous Monitoring of Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Blooms using Sentinel 3-Olci Data Abhishek Kumar

Estimation of Chl-a Concentration in Laguna Lake using Sentinel-3 OLCI Images Ariel C. Blanco

Satellite Observed Temporal and Spatial Variability of Water Clarity in the Laurentian Great Lakes Robert Shuchman

Anomaly Detection in Surface Waters: A Machine Learning Approach Armin Mehrabian

Advancing Water Quality Monitoring Capabilities for Inland Waters using Landsat and Sentinel Data in an Automated HPC Environment Leif Olmanson Climate Impact Investigations

Grace-informed Seasonal Forecasts of Hydrologic Extremes in the Contiguous United States Benjamin Zaitchik

Geo-Information-Based Assessments of Climate Change Impacts on Environmental Degradation In Nigeria Olajumoke Folasade Jejelola

Modelling Earth-Observation Assessments and Adaptation of Gulf-of-Guinea Coast to Climate Change and Future Extreme Events Samuel Olumide Akande

Developing Outcome-based Environmental Informatics: A Pathfinder in Data Integration for Coastal Systems Nicole Bartlett

Enterprise LST Product Status and Its Readiness to Users Yuling Liu Biodiversity and Conservation Case Studies

Geospatial Modeling of Human-Wildlife Conflict and Habitat Suitability for Jaguar Corridors in Costa Rica Hikari Murayama

Spatial Multi-criteria Modeling for Habitat Suitability of Flagship Species in Western Himalaya Ramesh Silwal

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A Geospatial Analysis of Seasonal Flow and Biodiversity at Jebba and Kainji Hydroelectric Power Plants in Nigeria Adewale Mould

Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Habitat Characteristics at the Adhesive Spawning Site in Water-level Fluctuation Zone over the Three Gorges Reservoir Ding Fang

Ecological Remote Sensing Monitoring of Sichuan-yunnan Ecological Defense in China Li Liang Case Studies in Cropland Mapping and Monitoring

Mapping and Monitoring Croplands using Field Data Collection and the Global Agricultural & Disaster Assessment System Lisa Colson

Strengthening Food Security Assessments in Kenya through Implementation of a National Crop Monitor System Lilian Ndungu

Agriculturally Consistent Mapping of Smallholder Farming Systems using Remote Sensing and Spatial Modelling Crespin-Boucaud Arthur

Fine-Scale Spatial and Temporal Monitoring of Crop Growth, Biomass and Weather Damage: Techniques for Small Farms and Community Gardens Shannon Healy

Evapotranspiration Modeling for C4 and C3 Crops using Remote Sensing Data Yahampath A. Marambe Large Area Land Change Mapping and Monitoring Investigations The Fate of Tropical Forest Fragments Matt Hansen

Forestry TEP is Serving Users in Efficent Exploitation of Earth Observation In Forestry Tuomas Hame

Comparison of Machine Learning Algorithms for Predicting Lichen Fractions in Northern Canada and Alaska Blair Kennedy

Earth Observations for Global Biodiversity Monitoring Cindy Schmidt

Copernicus Operational Global Land Cover Service—A Flexible, User-oriented and Multi-scale Mapping Approach Marcel Buchhorn

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Societal benefits for Earth Observations in Natural Resources Management Decision Making

Societal Benefits of USGS Science: Indications from a Series of Pilot Studies Emily Pindilli

The Consortium for the Valuation of Applications Benefits Linked with Earth Science (VALUABLES) Yusuke Kuwayama

Value of Geospatial Information for Food Security, Water Security and Housing Security Jamie Brown Kruse

Valuing the Benefits of Earth Observations: A NOAA Perspective Monica Grasso Sustainable Land Imaging and the Future of Moderate-Resolution Land Observation

Sustainable Land Imaging Marissa Herron, Tim Newman

Science and Applications Needs for Future Land Imaging Missions Zhuoting Wu

Copernicus Sentinel-2 and Candidate Land Surface Temperature Monitoring (LSTM) Missions Valentina Boccia

Overview and Status of the Landsat 9 Mission Del Jenstrom

Advantages of Enabling Technologies Applied within Land Imaging Architectures Doug Daniels Women in Remote Sensing Moderator: Jennifer Lacey, USGS EROS Observing Systems Branch Chief

Panelists: Kass Green, President, Kass Green & Associates Birgit Peterson, Geographer, USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science Center Barbara J. Ryan, Former Director of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Alyssa Whitcraft, Program Scientist, GEOGLAM Studies Advancing Land Cover Mapping and Monitoring Capabilities

Reconciling Citizen Science and Landsat Land Cover Observations in Heterogenous Settings Eric C. Brown de Colstoun

The Factor Segmentation of the Ecological Space and the Theoretical and Methodological Substantiation of the Boundaries and Integrity in the Landscape Cover and its Components by Means of Remote Sensing A.N. Krenke

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Using Lidar and Earth Observation Temporal Analysis to Characterize and Explore Historic Behavior of Uranium Mining on the Landscape Victoria G. Stengel

A Data-driven Approach for Mapping Grasslands at a Regional Scale Dana Peterson

High Resolution Land Cover Classification using the National Land Cover Dataset Tool, Imagery and Historical Data Jeff Van de Vaarst Earth Observation and Remote Sensing Education Initiatives

Policy Measures Taken for Natural Resources Data Management In India Prithvish Nag

Natural Science Meets Social Science: The Realities of Cross-Disciplinary Work Valerie Were

Earth-centric Technology Paradigm for STEM Education and Public Communication Tim Foresman

Augmented Tools for Environmental Monitoring: Incorporating Recent Technologies into Learning in the Geosciences Marguerite Madden

Leveraging Open Data for Informed Decision Making Carolyn Savoldelli

Innovative STEM Curriculum Development for the NextGen Earth Observation Workforce Laurie Chisholm Harnessing Earth Observations for Improved Fire Response

The GEO Global Wildfire Information System (GEO-GWIS) Vincent G. Ambrosia

WildFireSat—A Canadian Wildland Fire Monitoring System Helena van Mierlo

Integrating Lidar into MTBS Burn Severity Mapping Birgit Peterson

Examining Recent Trends in Fires and Air Quality in the U.S. Using Seven Years of SNPP VIIRS Shobha Kondragunta

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Toward the Assessment and Modeling of a Functional Relationship of Land Cover and Land Use A Possible New Path forward – the LCHML (Land Characterization Metal-Language) A New Proposed ISO Standard Antonio Di Gregorio John S Latham Doug O’Brien Land Change Monitoring Assessment and Projection (LCMAP): Current Status

Progress Towards Continuous Monitoring of our Changing U.S. Land Cover Jesslyn Brown

How to Produce Land Cover and Land Change from Time Series Data Heather Tollerud

LCMAP Land Cover and Land Change Products Christopher Crawford

Quality Control and Assessment of InterpreterR Consistency of Annual Land Cover Reference Data for the USGS LCMAP Initiative Bruce Pengra

Use of LCMAP Reference Data for Accuracy Assessment and Area Estimation Steve Stehman

Initial LCMAP Prototype Land Cover Classification Composition and Change Metrics, 1985-2016 Roger Auch Open Data Cube: A New Data Technology for Enhancing the Use of Satellite Data to Address Sustainable Development Goals

Time-Series and Applications of Advanced Sentinel-1 Analysis Ready Data for Africa (SAR-4-Africa) Jorg Haarpaintner

Summary of the Open Data Cube Initiative and its impact on the Sustainable Development Goals Brian Killough

An interoperable multi-sensor water detection approach using the Open Data Cube Brian Killough

Galamsey Monitoring with Sentinel-1 in Ghana Jorg Haarpaintner

Lessons Learned from Using the Open Data Cube (ODC) and Machine Learning Techniques for United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Syed R Rizvi

Towards improving the multi-sensor interoperability to mitigate the effects of clouds on analyses using Open Data Cube (ODC) for United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Syed R Rizvi

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Earth Observations for International Development Earth Observations for International Development Douglas Muchoney

Citizen Science and Earth Observation: An Overview Krystal Wilson

Global Forest Watch, from Satellite Data to Information for Decision Makers Fred Stolle

Strengthening Capacity in using Earth Observations for Societal Benefit in the Americas in the Context of the Amerigeo Regional Initiative Betzy Hernandez Sandoval

SERVIR: Fourteen Years of Bringing Space to Village Emil Cherrington

Utilizing Earth Observation to Map Ecosystem Extent and Condition in West Papua, Indonesia Timothy Wright

Harnessing Earth Observations to Support Indigenous-led Land Management Karyn Tabor Advances in Crop Yield Monitoring Approaches

VERDE: An Innovative Solution to Deliver Detailed Crop Analytics Peter Barren

Multi-UAV System for Precision Agriculture Georgy Skorobogatov

From Pixel to Yield: Forecasting Potato Productivity in Lebanon and Idaho Hanan Abou Ali

Estimating US Corn Yields using MODIS Data, Phenology Analysis, and Two-Band Enhanced Vegetation Index Arthur Rosales

Annual Field-level Crop Yield Assessment with 35 Years of Landsat data David Johnson Bathymetry and Near-Shore Investigations

A Cost-effective Method for Water Depth Derivation Using Remotely Sensed Imagery Jerimiah Johnson

Using Remote Sensing to Quantify Paleolithic Site Potential of Ancients by Restructuring Bio-Communities Along the Kelp Highway JP McGlaughlin

Mapping of Shallow Water Sites to Inform Boat Navigation on the Colville River, North Slope of Alaska Santosh Panda

Altimetry Applications in Coastal and Inland Waters Margaret Srinivasan

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Aquaculture Mapping and Production Estimation Derived from Copernicus Sentinel-1 Time Series Marco Ottinger Forest Health and Degradation Monitoring Investigations

Estimating Rates of Forest Degradation and Deforestation for the Amazon Basin from 1995-2017 Eric Bullock

Using Radar-derived Elevation Data to Characterize Land Cover Changes Detected by Landsat Imagery in the Northwestern Colombian Amazon Paulo Arvalo

Detection and Severity Classification of Spruce Budworm Annual Defoliation using Sentinel-2 Imagery Rajeev Bhattarai

Landsat Time Series Analysis of a Continuous Variable Response—Percent Mortality from a Bark-Beetle Infestation Rick Lawrence

Extraction of Young-Woody Vegetation Structure in a Savanna Semi-Arid Environment Exploiting Readily Available Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8 Images Emmanuel Fundisi How No-cost Landsat Data is Reshaping College Level Remote Sensing Courses (AmericaView Special Session) Integrating Change Detection into Undergraduate Geomorphology and Natural Hazards Courses and the Impact of Landsat’s Free Imagery Archives Rebecca L. Dodge

Educating Science and Art with Landsat Imagery at UWG Jeong Seong

SP9 Reaping the Benefits of No-Cost Imagery for Geospatial Education Russell Congalton

Impact of No-cost Landsat Imagery on Courses at Montana State University: Increased Relevance, Realistic Experiences, and Publications Rick Lawrence

Landsat Archived Data for Time Series Salt Marsh Change Analysis along the mid-Atlantic Coast Y.Q. Wang

No Cost Landsat Imagery Supports Student eBook Learning James Campbell

No-cost Landsat Data Redefines Student Research Projects in Applied Remote Sensing Classes at UW Ramesh Sivanpillai

Advancing Undergraduate Geospatial Science Education using No Cost Landsat as a Base to Build Story Map Applications while Enhancing the Remote Sensing Art Gallery Exhibit Brent Yantis

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Utilization of Free Landsat Imagery in Remote Sensing Teaching, Research and Outreach at the University of North Georgia J.B. Sharma

SPatial LITeracy—SPLIT Remote Sensing using No-cost Landsat Data by OhioView Anita Simic Milas Land Change Monitoring Assessment and Projection (LCMAP): New Land Change Science Research and Development

New Land Disturbance Products Zhe Zhu

Future Directions and Updated Capabilities for LCMAP Heather Tollerud

Algorithm Development for Mapping land Disturbance Agent Junxue Zhang

Mapping Causal Agents of Disturbance in the ABoVE Domain using Time Series of Landsat Data Yingtong Zhang

Towards A Moderate Spatial Resolution Data Record of 21st Century Global Land Cover, Land Use, and Land Cover Change Mark Friedl New Generation of NOAA Operational Satellites to support Land, Arctic, and Coastal Waters Applications

Application of GOES-16/ABI Imagery in Flood Detection Sanmei Li

Advancing Environmental Remote Sensing with VIIRS and ABI Changyong Cao

Active Fire Monitoring and Applications from NOAA’s New Generation Operational Satellites Ivan Csiszar

Observing Hail Swaths Using the GOES Advanced Baseline Imager Kevin Gallo

The Land Product Characterization System: A tool for Comparative Analysis of Satellite Data and Products Kevin Gallo

The NOAA CoastWatch Program and Operational Satellite Oceanography Data for Research and Applications Paul M. DiGiacomo

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Cropland and Soil Monitoring Wheat Sown Area Mapping in Afghanistan using Knowledge Based Decision Tree and Machine Learning Method with Optical and RADAR Images in Google Earth Engine Cloud Environment W. Lee Ellenburg

Paddy Rice Mapping in Cloudy Southeast Asia with Multitemporal Synthetic Aperture Radar and Optical Images in the Google Earth Engine Cloud Platform Fuyou Tian

Early Season Winter Wheat Identification Using SENTINEL-1 Synthetic Aperture RADAR and Optical Imagery Claire Boryan

Downscaling of SMAP Radiometer Soil Moisture In Conus Bin Fang

A Strategy for a National Soil Moisture Network Michael Cosh Forest Monitoring and MRV Case Studies

Space-time Heterogeneity of the Cerrado Deforestation Alan de Brito

Interoperability of Various Data Streams within Guyana’s Monitoring Reporting & Verification System Pradeepa Bholanath

Using Guyana’s Monitoring Reporting and Verification System to Guide National Forest Management and Decision Making Nasheta Dewnath

Measuring Global Forest Fragmentation Change using Landsat Imagery in Support of the UN Sustainability Goals Charlene DiMiceli

Aspects of Forest Dynamics of the East European Plain Based on Global Forest Change Data and Local Field Observations T.V. Chernenkova New Earth Observations Preliminary Validation of GOES-16 ABI Aerosol Optical Depth Product Mi Zhou

Estimating Ground-level PM2.5 Concentration by Integrating Ground Observations with Remotely Sensing Data Zhenwei Zhang

Total Propagated Uncertainty of the Surface Reflectance of the Satellite Imagery Minsu Kim

A Novel Re-compositing Approach to Create a Continuous and Consistent Cross-Sensor Global NDVI Data Set

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Wenze Yang

Development and Validation of JPSS VIIRS VI and GVF Products Feng Zhao Land Change Monitoring Assessment and Projection (LCMAP): Advancing Land Cover Applications and Assessments

Remote Sensing as the Foundation for the Next Generation of United States Landscape Projection Models Terry Sohl

Comparative Study Between NLCD and LCMAP Land Cover Maps Qiang Zhou

Characterize Landscape Thermal Feature and Change in Urban Environment using Landsat Ard and Lcmap Products George Xian

LCMAP Applications in Hydrological Sciences Jennifer Rover An Overview of the Current Analysis Ready Data Products, Tools, Applications and Impacts

CEOS Analysis Ready Data for Land (CARD4L)—An Overview on the Current and Future Work Andreia Siqueira

The Open Data Cube in a Box Alex Leith

Copernicus Sentinel-2 Surface Reflectance Products from a CARD4L Perspective Valentina Boccia

The USGS’s Progress Towards Analysis Ready Data (ARD) Products Cody Anderson

Sen2like, a Tool to Generate Sentinel-2 Harmonised Surface Reflectance Products Toward the integration of New Missions Sebastian Saunier Case Studies in National Land Cover Mapping Projects

A National Land Cover Monitoring System for Afghanistan W. Lee Ellenburg

Optical and Radar Data Analysis for Land Cover/Use Mapping in Peru Barry N Haack

Living Earth Australia: Land Cover Mapping to Address Sustainable Development Goals using Digital Earth Australia Christopher Owers

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Quantification of Recent Land Cover Changes in Ethiopia Reza Khatami

Earth Monitor: A Multi-Criteria Change Monitoring Service using Satellite Imagery Peter Barren Open Civil Applications Committee Meetings

Civil Applications Overview Paul Young/Jim Reilly

Leveraging DoD Imagery for Civil Applications Steve Hak

Geospatial Sensing for the Wildland Firefight Everett Hinkley

The Opportunity Project Drew Zachary Advances in Soil Moisture and Condition Measurement and Monitoring

Multi-Layer Soil Moisture Mapping at Regional Scale using Multi-source Data and Machine Learning Methods Linglin Zeng

Conserving Soils through Operational Monitoring of Salt Accumulation and Waterlogging in Irrigated Agricultural Fields Adriaan van Niekerk

Object-based Classification Approach to Determine the Fallow Period For Shifting Agriculture in Indigenous Communities in Guyana Haimwant Persaud – candidate for movement to a methods session.

Using Space-Borne Image Spectroscopic Data to Estimate At Canopy Level Maize Nitrate Status In A Linear Regression Model Adeline Ngie A Conversation on the Landsat Program and its Data Policy Moderator: Barbara Ryan

Panelists: Dr. Samuel Goward, Professor Emeritus, Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland Dr. Kass Green, President, Kass Green and Associates, and former President, Space Imaging Solutions and Pacific Meridian Resources Dr. Chris Justice, Professor and Chair, Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland Ms. Barbara Ryan, former Director, Group on Earth Observations (GEO), and USGS Associate Director for Geography

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Dr. Darrel Williams, Chief Scientist, Global Science and Technology (GST) Inc., and former NASA Landsat Project Scientist Importance of System Calibration and Data Quality on Earth Observation Copernicus Sentinel-2 Calibration Activities and Data Quality Status After Two Years of Fully Deployed On-orbit Constellation Valentina Boccia

Comparison of Dove Landsat Radiometric Quality to Landsat 8 OLI Minsu Kim

The Importance of Calibration on the Usability of Earth Observation Data Michael Choate

Multi-constellation Calibration at Planet and L1 Interoperability with other Missions Arin Jumpasut Special Technical Session – “Ignite” Short Talk Session

Improving Global-scale Soil Moisture Observation Systems using GPS signals and Land Surface Models Hyunglok Kim

Unicorns to Workhorses: Extending Routine Sunphotometry to the Oceans Stephen Broccardo

Examining Reference Ecosystems and the Resilience of Mine Rehabilitation using Ground Data with and High-resolution Imagery Peter Erskine

Detecting Leaf Damages with True Color Photos Obtained from Mobile Phones Ela V. Piskorski

Optimization of Bio-optical Model Parameters for Turbid Lake Water Quality Estimation using Landsat 8 and WASI-2D Amihan Manuel

Earth Observations and Crop Modeling to Support Agricultural Water Resources Management Pierre Guillevic

Analysis Ready High Revisit, High Resolution SAR Data Davide Castelletti

Apples and Oranges: Meta-analysis and Analytic Inference from Published Land-cover Classifications Peter Kennedy

Historical Photographic Analysis in Environmental Remediation Shiloh Dorgan

Performance Analysis of Image Classification through Different Feature Sets Camila Souza dos Anjos

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SAR for Agriculture and Perspective Applications

Compact Polarimetry Soil Moisture Retrieval: Preparing for the Radarsat-Constellation and Validation using SMAP Data Amine Merzouki

Regularized Greedy Forest for Crop Classification from Polarimetric SAR Images Mustafa Ustuner

A Machine Learning Approach for Crop Mapping and Monitoring Using Multitemporal SAR and Optical Earth Observations Saeid Homayouni High Resolution Land Cover Using NAIP Moderator: M. Norton

West Virginia Statewide Land Cover Classification from NAIP Orthophotography: Findings and Recommendations Aaron Maxwell

Utilizing NAIP Imagery to Perform High-resolution Land Cover Mapping in a Desert Landscape: Successes and Challenges Rachel Soobitsky

Using Deep Learning for High-resolution Land Cover Mapping: Challenges and Opportunities Caleb Robinson

High-Resolution Change Detection: Overcoming Challenges Jarlath O’Neil-Dunne Investigations in Support of Human Welfare

Seeing Mosquitoes from Space? Help from Citizen Scientists using the Globe Observer’s Mosquito Habitat Mapper and Land Cover Tools Russanne D. Low

Soil Monitoring for the Detection of Improvised Explosive Devices using Remote Sensing Techniques Mit Kotecha

Monitoring Invasive Kudzu in Urban Environments: Indicators of Neglected Structures, Social Impacts and Loss of Biodiversity Estefania

Towards Development of Methodology to Detect Informal Settlement using High-resolution Imagery-south African Case Study Naledzani Mudau

Cadastral Map Digitization using Geospatial Tecnology Abhilash Maryada

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Vegetation Condition Case Studies

Landsat-based Detection of White Spruce Masting in the Kluane Region, Yukon Matthew Garcia

Satellite-based Mapping of Field-Scale Stress Indicators for Crop Yield Forecasting: An Application Across the Corn Belt, USA Yang Yang

Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of Striga Weed Severity using In-situ Spectroscopy and Multivariate Discriminatory Techniques Bester Mudereri

Estimating Tree Species Diversity using Biophysical and Biochemical Properties Derived from the Inversion of Radiative Transfer Models Sabelo Madonsela

Corn Crop Growth Condition Assessment Based on Growth Dynamics: A Multi-source Method Zhengwei Yang Satellite Interoperability

Landsat Collection-2 Reference Data Updates for Improved Registration to Sentinel-2 Rajagopalan Rengarajan

Towards Enhanced Sensor Interoperability and Harmonized Surface Reflectance Products Rasmus Houborg

Improved Interoperability through Systemic Radiometric Calibration Dennis Helder

Spectral Harmonization: Can It Be Done? Jon Christopherson NASA Harvest and Other Recent Advances in Remote Sensing of Agricultural Applications and Food Security

NASA Harvest: A Program Enhancing the use of Earth Observations for Agriculture Chris Justice

The GEOGLAM Crop Monitors Brian Barker

Monitoring and Modeling Field-Level Crop Yield and Environmental Sustainability for the US Corn Belt Kaiyu Guan

Using Earth Observations to Provide Early Warning for Food Insecurity Greg Husek

Monitoring and forecasting water availability with the FEWS NET Land Data Assimilation System Amy McNally

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Collaboration in the Diverse Geospatial Workforce: How Early Career Professionals Can Bring Innovations to the Technical Community Peng Fu Bobby Arlen Amanda Aragon Moderate Resolution Data Characterization and Transformations

Cloud Detection Algorithm for Multi-modal Satellite Imagery using Convolutional Neural-Networks (CNN) Michal Segal Rozenhaimer

The Tasseled Cap Transform Revisited Thomas Parris

Bulk Processing of the European Space Agency Landsat Multi Spectral Scanner Archive: Recent Improvements and Developments Saunier

A Multi-scale Segmentation Approach to Filling Gaps in Landsat Etm+ SLC-Off Images through Pixel Weighting Rennan de Freitas Bezerra Marujo

Generating High Spatiotemporal Land Surface Temperatures through Sharpening Multi-sensor Thermal Imagery Jie Xue Remote Sensing Methods and Measurements How to Keep the Human in the Loop during GEOBIA Raechel A. White

Issues in Developing Larger Area (1.0 km2) sUAS Based GEOBIA Applications J.B. Sharma

Multispectral and Hyperspectral Satellite Data for Hydrothermal Alteration Mapping using the MTMF Algorithm in an Unexplored Region Aliyu Jaafar Abubakar

USGS Operational Implementation of Lidar Data Quality Measure Software 2019 Barry Miller

A New Approach of Total Suspended Sediment Concentration Estimation for Aquatic Color Remote Sensing Application (SP7) Sundarabalan, V Balasubramanian Case Studies in Flood Monitoring and Management

Flood Risk Mapping of the Nasia River in Northern Ghana Using HAND Contours and Historical Flood Data Eric Kwabena Forkuo

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Flood Vulnerability Mapping: A Case Study of Okoko Basin Osogbo Nigeria Adedoja Toyosi Beatrice

Rapid Urban Flood Mapping Using Integrated Backscattering and Coherence from Multi-temporal ALOS-2 Data Young-Joo Kwak

Flood Inundation Mapping and Monitoring in Lower Ganga and RAMGANGA Doab in India using SENTINEL-1 SAR Data Ashwani kumar Agnihotri

Continental Water Monitoring to Aid Decision Support Systems in Respect of Natural Hazards, Water Resources and Agriculture, Inland Fisheries, and Regional Security Assessments Charon Birkett UAS: Changing the Future of Remote Sensing

USGS Small UAS Present and Future Scientific Research and Operational Applications Jeff Sloan

UAS for Remote Sensing: System Capabilities and Products Quality and Accuracy Qassim Abdullah

Generating Consistent UAS Remote Sensing Data Ajit Sampath

Laboratory Radiometric Calibration/Characterization and Workflow for Low Cost sUAS VNIR Cameras Mary Pagnutti Global 30-m Landsat-derived Rainfed and Irrigated Croplands for Food and Water Security Studies

Global 30-m Landsat-derived Cropland Extent Product for Nominal 2015 produced using Machine Learning Algorithms and Cloud Computing on Google Earth Engine Prasad S. Thenkabail

A Meta-analysis of Global Crop Water Productivity of Three Leading World Crops (Wheat, Corn, And Rice) in the Irrigated Areas: An Assessment from Remote Sensing and Non-remote Sensing Studies Over Three Decades Daniel Foley

Global 30-m Landsat and Modis Derived Irrigated and Rainfed Cropland Area Maps using Spectral Matching Techniques and Machine Learning Algorithms on the Cloud Pardhasaradhi Teluguntla

Southeast and Northeast Asian Cropland Mapping using Landsat 30-m Time-series Data, Machine Learning, and Google Earth Engine (GEE) Cloud Computing Adam J. Oliphant

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Earth Observation and Agricultural Statistics – Agricultural and Agri-environmental Monitoring for SDG 2: Zero Hunger Moderator: John S Latham, Visiting Professor Geospatial Statistics, University of Southampton, UK Former Head of Geospatial Unit UNFAO

Panelists:

William Wigton, AAIC, Former Senior Statistician USDA Elisabetta Carfagna, Full Professor of Statistics, University of Bologna Processing Strategies for Big Data Understanding Big Data through Space and Time: How Standards Help Peter Baumann

Prototyping Cloud Architecture for Operational Vegetation Monitoring: The Global Agricultural Monitoring System Michael Humber

Analysis Ready Data—The Detail Matters Alex Leith

A Workflow to Harmonize Deep Archives of Heterogeneous Optical Multi-mission Earth-observation Imagery Wolfgang Luck

USGS 3DEP Lidar Delivery, Visualization and Within-Cloud Processing Strategies Richard Brown Remote Sensing Investigations of Wetlands and Near-Shore Issues Integrating Optical and Sar Earth Observation Data to Support the Production of a Comprehensive Wetlands Inventory Dataset for Alaska Ben DeVries

A Completed Wetland Inventory of Newfoundland and an Ongoing Wetland Inventory of Canada Using EO Data on Google Earth Engine Bahram Salehi

Applying UAS for Evaluating Transportation Infrastructure and Monitoring Invasive Aquatic Plants Colin Brooks

Satellite Remote Sensing Reveals More than Three Decades of Increasing Coral Bleaching Heat Stress Gang Liu

Using NOAA Coral Reef Watch Ecoforecasts to Prepare for and Respond to the 2014-17 Global Coral Bleaching Event C. Mark Eakin

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Case Studies in Urban Growth Monitoring

Monitoring Growth of Top Indian Metropolises and its Consequences Using Earth Observations Ankit Sikarwar

Continuous Urban Change Detection from Satellite Imagery to Support the Deployment of UAS for Rapid Updates of Digital Surface Models in Smart Communities Corey White

Temporal Analysis of Urban Sprawl in Inland Coastal Regions of Michigan Michelle Church

Application of Cellular Automata-Markov Chain and Multi-Layer Perceptron-Markov Chain Models for Simulating Land Cover Changes in Comilla City Corporation (CCC) Area, Bangladesh Abdulla - Al Kafy

Managing Urban Sprawl Using Remote Sensing and GIS K S Krishnaveni New Technology and Techniques to Increase Scientific and Applications Access to Satellite Earth Observations

The Multi-Mission Algorithm and Analysis Platform: Sharing Data and Algorithms Across Agencies and Scientists Aimee Barciauskas

Utilizing the NASA Atmospheric Science Data Center (ASDC) Geospatial Platform for Data Analysis Matthew Tisdale

Pangeo: A Big-data Ecosystem for Scalable Earth System Science Joseph Hamman

Designing the User Experience for Earth Observation Data Services in the Cloud Christopher Lynnes Applications of NASA Earth Observations for Local Decision Making: 20 Years of the NASA DEVELOP Program

Patuxent Water Resources: Assessing Land Cover and Land Use Change to Inform Watershed Resource Management Stephanie Rockwood

Monitoring the Urban Heat Island Effects on the Health of Residents of New Orleans, Louisiana Metropolitan Area Madison Murphy

Utilizing SAR and NASA Earth Observations to Identify Optimal Transportation Routes to Assist Emergency Responders Christine Evans

Employing Remote Sensing Techniques to Quantify Sediment Supply and Evaluate Marsh Vulnerability in the Plum Island Estuary Zach Bengtsson

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Utilizing Landsat and Sentinel-2 to Remotely Monitor and Evaluate the Performance of Winter Cover Crops Throughout Maryland Julio Peredo

Using NASA Earth Observations to Explore Urban Heat and Flood Vulnerability in Providence, RI & Elizabeth, NJ Sarah Aldama Crop-Water Stress Investigations using Earth Observations

Estimation of Vegetation Health Index for Agricultural Drought Monitoring using NDVI and Land Surface Temperature Imageries: A Case Study in Barind Tract of Bangladesh Abdulla - Al Kafy

Towards Operationalization: Evaluation of a Regional Drought and Yield Assessment System in Kenya W. Lee Ellenburg

Characterizing Field-scale Water Use and Crop Stress in Agricultural Landscapes using Multi-Sensor Data Fusion Martha Anderson

Measurement Uncertainty and Model Validation: An Instructive Case Study of an Irrigated Cotton Crop Joseph Alfieri

Utilization of Thermal Infrared-based Satellite Remote Sensing for Operational Irrigation Management in a California Vineyard Kyle Knipper Applications of Earth Observations for Disaster Assessments and Management

Post Disaster Analysis of Brazilian Iron Ore Mining Dam Failure using Advanced Geospatial Technologies Muhammad Ahsan Mahboob

North Queensland Flood Monitoring Using U-NET Architecture for Semantic Segmentation with SENTINEL -1 SAR and INSAR Imagery Isabella Lee

Identifying Hurricane Impacts on Barbuda using Citizen Science Ground Observations, Drone Photography and Satellite Imagery Rebecca Boger

Monitoring Agriculture during Disasters using Remote Sensing and Geospatial Data Products Avery Sandborn

Small Satellites & International Development Krystal Wilson

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Advances in Mapping and Monitoring Water Characteristics

A Satellite-based Analysis Tool for Rapid Evaluation of Aquatic EnvironMents (STREAM) Nima Pahlevan

Combining Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8 for Benthic Vegetation Monitoring in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Robert Shuchman

Estimating Phytoplankton Productivity in the Largest Lakes of the World using Satellite Remote Sensing Michael Sayers

Lining Remote Sensing and Ecophysiology for Aquatic Ecosystem Management in the California Delta David L.Bubenheim

Monitoring Land Use and Water Use Change Over Forested Landscapes in North Carolina, USA using Multi-Sensor Data Fusion Yun Yang Earth Observation Missions and Services

Demonstrating Next Generation High-altitude, Long Endurance Aircraft for Earth Science Matthew Fladeland

NASA Airborne Science Contributions to Continuous Earth Monitoring Susan Schoenung

The DLR Earth Sensing Imaging Spectrometer (DESIS) Instrument On-Orbit Performance and Data Access through TCloud Kara Burch

A New German Hyperspectral Mission EnMAP: Processors and Calibration Gintautas Palubinskas

SIR-C Data Recovery for Continuous Monitoring of the Earth Kenneth Arnoult

Developing a National Terrain Model Stephen Aichele Poster Session

Bathymetry Mapping in North American Waters using a Radiative-transfer Based Modeling Approach Christopher Olayinka Ilori

Quantitative Analysis of Habitat Selection Preference for Schizothorax Fishes in Brahmaputra by Remote Sensing Wang Lin

Deforestation and Rainforest Fires in an Agricultural Frontier Area in Eastern Amazon, Brazil Cesar Teixeira Donato de Araujo

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Deforestation Relationship Between Agriculture Activities and Livestock in a Palm Oil Expansion Area in Brazilian Amazon Cesar Teixeira Donato de Araujo

Mapping Mangrove Species with the Combination of Worldview-3 and Airborne Lidar Data Li Qiaosi

Spectral Remote Sensing of Harmful Algal Blooms Terry Slonecker

Accuracy Assessment of sUAS Photogrammetrically-Derived Point Clouds Amal Suleiman, Omar E. Mora

Easy Acquisition of Earth Observations over Monitoring Sites using the Application for Extracting and Exploring Analysis-Ready Samples (AppEEARS) Thomas Maiersperger

GOES-16 ABI SRB Products: Method, Evaluation, and Possible Improvements Hye-Yun Kim

UAV for Invasive Plant Species in the Old Woman Creek Estuary, Ohio using Machine Learning Classifiers Tharindu H. Abeysinghe

Long-term Root Zone Moisture Trends Across Conus from a New Root-Zone Soil Moisture Product Called Smerge Kenneth Tobin

GOES-16/17-based Evapotranspiration and Drought Monitoring Products from NESDIS GET-D System Li Fang

Crop Phenology Monitoring using Fused Remote Sensing Data Donghui Xie

Twenty Years of Disaster and Natural Hazards Monitoring with the ASTER Instrument on NASA’s Terra Platform Michael Abrams

Satellite Estimates of Euphotic Zone and Secchi Disk Depths from a Reservoir Enner Alcantara

Kite Systems for Local Scale Remote Sensing Geoff Bland

Rice Greening Versus Sand Whitening on Drylands: A Geospatial Modelling of Sustainable Agriculture Expansion to Anticipate Desert Fronts Progress Around the Magaâs Floodplain, Far-North Cameroon Alfred Homere

Modelling Risk of Soils Degradation through Statistics Analysis of Spectral Indices: Case Study on the Cameroonians Shores of Lake Chad and its Hinterland Paul Gerard Gbetkom

A Geospatial Technology for Soil Resource Management of Goa State Gaurav Dongre

Assessment of Soil Erosion by RUSLE Model using Earth Observation- A Case Study of North West Coastal Area, Egypt Samy Abo Ragab

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Societal Response and Community Resilience to Environmental Pollution And Extreme Events along Nigeria Coast Olajumoke Folasade Jejelola

SELEGUA a New BSRN Station in Southern Mexico Roberto Bonifaz

Using Very High Spatial Resolution Imagery and an Object-oriented Paradigm for Predicting Above-Ground Biomass in Togo, West Africa Hobabalo Pereki

Mapping Submarine Groundwater Discharge SGD of the Northern Guam Lens Aquifer NGLA with a UAV and a TIR sensor Eliana Cortes Walker

Combining Field Sampled and Imagery Sampled Data for Crop Area Estimation Sunita Yadav

An Approach of Machine Learning to Improve the Results Reliability of Burning Areas Product in the Brazilian Woody Savannah Fabiano Morelli

The Effects of Floodwaters from the Bonnet Carra Spillway on the Mississippi Gulf Coast Oyster Reefs Jarett Bell

Big Change of the Forest and the Coastal zone of Madagascar via satellites NOASILALAONOMENJANAHARY Ambinintsoa Lucie

Assessing Satellite-derived Phenological Metrics and Terrain Data as a Proxy for Vegetation Dynamics Along the Brazilian Savanna Corridor Hugo do Nascimento Bendini

Validating an Operational Single-channel Land Surface Temperature (LST) Retrieval Algorithm with the Landsat 8 Level 2 LST Products and Analyzing LST Patterns in Colorado between 2014 And 2018 Maosi Chen

Water Quality Monitoring using Semi-analytical Algorithm on the Western Coast of California Jee-Eun Min

Guidelines for Effective Environmental Assessment and Monitoring with Drones Renee Bartolo

Climate Change Impact Identified using Ecosystem Accounting at Local Scale Solofo Rakotondraompiana

Enhancing Chlorophyll-a Retrievals from Multispectral Observations via Machine Learning Brandon Smith

Inter- and Intra-Annual Changes in the Three-dimensional Structure of Urban Canopies Detected by Airborne, Terrestrial and Slam Lidar Measurements Youngkeun Song

Characterizing Plant Functional Properties in Arctic Biome with a Novel Multi-Sensor Unmanned Aerial System Dedi Yang

Habitat Assessment for Western Gray Squirrels (Sciurus Griseus) In Eastern Washington State Brian Cosentino

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Study on the Extraction, Distribution and Influence of Mountain Base Elevation in the Qinling-Daba Mountains Liu Junjie